Check this out. Initially, I had no interest in this game, but after reading a recent article in the latest issues of a computer gaming magazine I have changed my mind.
This game looks like a cross between Battlefield 2 and Quake: Team Fortress. Considering Quake: Team Fortress and Battlefield are my favorite FPS, I am rather excited about this game.
on top of that, the engine used in Doom3 looked great. Move it to an outdoor setting and I can only imagine what they will be able to do.
Here is an update on the character classes for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. This sounds very cool.
Global Defense Forces (GDF) Field Ops - Fire Support - Ammo Packs and ability to call in heavy firepower (IE Commander in BF2) Engineer - Support, Defense - Land Mines and Proximity Traps - Repairs vehicles, objective points, deploy radar and defense turrets. Soldier - General Assualt - Machine Gun and LAW. Can combine to create a mounted machine gun for other classes to use. Ranger - Stealth Recon - Sniper Rifle, Smoke Grenades - Uses PDA's to hack and disable enemy deployables. Medic - Support - Can add scope or grenade launcher to gun. Drops Health Packs and can use defibrillator to revive player.
Strogg Tank - Assault - Hyperblaster, Orb Weapon - Remote Controlled drone for limited scouting and support. Opressor - Fire Support - Lightning Pistol - Controls artillery deployables such as plasma mortar, rail howitzer and orbital attacks. Directs fire against adjacent enemy territory. Infiltrator - Stealth, Recon - Rail gun, Bioelectric Pinch Bomb - Can attempt to "stroggify" a subdued fallen GDF soldier. He transfers his essence into the captured body and can sneak behind enemy lines. The only way to identify stroggified soldiers is to look for small details like slight cybernetics or battle wounds. Constructor - Support Defence - Nail Gun, EMP - Constructs and repairs vehicles and objective points. Can deply turrets. Has a tiny sentinet AI controlled repair drone that is linked to him. If they move too far apart, the drone powers down. Meditek - Support - Siphons Stroyent (Strogg Health) from dead GDF soldiers. Can distribute it to the other Stroggs. Drops Stroyent Packs (health). If the meditek gets ahold of a dead GDF, he can turn it into a spawn host for the next Strogg waiting to spawn.